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Deuteronomy 16:9-16 New English Translation (NET)

9. You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

10. Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks before the Lord your God with the voluntary offering that you will bring, in proportion to how he has blessed you.

11. You shall rejoice before him – you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the Lord chooses to locate his name.

12. Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.

13. You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.

14. You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.

15. You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!

16. Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.

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